What's happening in Palliative Care?
The Dementia Respite Education and Mentoring (DREAM) Project
The DREAM Project aims to boost the capability of the aged care workforce to deliver quality dementia respite care. The project has been developed by the Wicking Dementia Research and Education Centre in collaboration with Dementia Support Australia and funded by the Australian Government.
Five key dementia respite topics have been identified.
Each DREAM module is short and easily accessible. You can extend your learning by accessing a range of curated additional resources or you might like to join the conversation in the Community of Practice by asking questions or sharing your experiences with your peers.
MARC project: READY Recognising Patients at Risk of Dying
This project supports clinical staff to recognise dying through a validated prognostic tool. Using interviews and audits of healthcare records the first MARC end-of-life project identified gaps in care service provision and in the documentation of older people’s care preferences towards the end of life. Considerable difficulties in the recognition of dying were highlighted.
More information Newsletters
 MARC-Project-Summary.pdf (213kB) |
Palliative Care Projects database
ProSeek is a searchable database of palliative care projects, research and activities completed across Australia with hundreds of records with useful knowledge and resources for making decisions and solving problems in aged care. Projects, research and activities can be submitted to ProSeek.